Last month Trump vowed to defend Christianity and urged Christians to vote for him

“This is really a battle between good and evil,” evangelical TV preacher Hank Kunneman says of the slew of criminal charges facing Donald Trump. “There’s something on President Trump that the enemy fears: It’s called the anointing.”

The Nebraska pastor, who was speaking on cable news show “FlashPoint” last summer, is among several voices in Christian media pressing a message of Biblical proportions: The 2024 presidential race is a fight for America’s soul, and a persecuted Trump has God’s protection.

“They’re just trying to bankrupt him. They’re trying to take everything he’s got. They’re trying to put him in prison,” author, media personality and self-proclaimed prophet Lance Wallnau said in October on “The Jim Bakker Show”, an hour-long daily broadcast that focuses on news and revelations about the end times that it says we are living in.

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    Hilarious to me that trump checks nearly every box for the literal antichrist, and the Christian’s love him.

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      Dude if Jesus appeared tomorrow the Republicans would line up to burn him. They don’t have real beliefs, just symbols.

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          I was thinking of this exact thing when commenting! And now we learn that Trump was put here by God for reasons.

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      That’s makes sense actually, anitchrist means the End Times^TM are here. Christians see that as a good thing

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        But isn’t getting deceived by him supposed to get you an express ticket to hell?

        You’d think they’d be a little more cautious

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          Given the figure that most closely matches the projected boogeyman in something like 2 Thess 2 was Paul himself, they’ve been deceived for nearly two millennia now.

          At this point, gravitating to a narcissist grifter is just par for the course.

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      Funnier yet that Jesus explictly warned against false profits like Trump.

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        Matthew 7:15-20

        It’s an interesting passage and possibly in the M source. Unless of course you were talking about the Mark passage.

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      His name is 669 when put into Aramaic and that old Middle East way of counting is applied to the letters?

      Teasing. I take your meaning.